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ZackFord
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January 22, 2014
Question

allowaccess fgfm and Port 541

  • January 22, 2014
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So we use a FortiManager to manage all our remote firewalls. To enable the manager access to the remote fortigates you have to enable fgfm-access in the interface that it will be connecting to. When you do this, it open up port 541. All other management interfaces (ssh http/https telnet ping snmp) get restricted to trusted hosts, but fgfm-access gets opened up to the whole internet. Now the port is secure, but auditors freak out and customers don' t understand. Does anyone have any idea if there is a way to make this port appear as closed on a port scan instead of open? The best i have come up with is something like this: config firewall local-in-policy edit 2 set intf " port7" set srcaddr " Test_Public" set dstaddr " all" set service " FortiManager_541" set schedule " always" set action accept next edit 1 set intf " port7" set srcaddr " all" set dstaddr " all" set service " FortiManager_541" set schedule " always" set action deny next end This at least changes the state to filtered on a port scan. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.

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    rwpatterson
    New Member
    January 23, 2014
    welcome to the forums. If the source IP for the FortiMgr is always the same, ONLY allow that IP access, and DENY all the rest. Never mind... I see that' s what you have done.